Exactly: you need the list. It won't cost the performer nor the venue anything - the venue is already paying. It is so the fees get paid to the guy who wrote the music actually performed rather than it all going to the record company that bought time on the Clear Channel radio stations.

If we can figure out a way to make the reporting easy enough so the small venues can do it.

For example, would you object to swiping a magstripe card through the bar's Point-of-sale terminal on the way out the door?